The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 128
Finally he hit upon a plan; he got up on the roof and crept down the chimney.
Who acts: king · What happens: hit, get up, creep · To what, where: roof, chimney
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 hit | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 plan | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plan | det |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hit | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hit | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 got | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crept | cc |
| 15 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hit | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 chimney | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chimney | det |
| 18 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crept | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | king | upon a plan; finally property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | king | the roof | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on roof=Source | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | king not said here | the chimney | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down chimney=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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